Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 2 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 3 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 4 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 5 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 6 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 7 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 8 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 9 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 10 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 11 | They were nearing the auto now , plunging towards it , backing away , seeing nothing but each other . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ We can have DSS men drive to deliver claims forms to hippie itinerants contributing nothing to this country . |
| 13 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 14 | It came to him as a Revelation , descending upon his mind in all its complex glory , that there was a man in the City in need of his help , and that the man — his name did n't matter-would free everyone as this awakening had freed him . |
| 15 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 16 | ‘ Say nothing about these papers , Poole , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 18 | The balance sheets of public sector organizations are not relevant for making judgements about creditworthiness anyway , so the consolidation adds nothing in this respect . |
| 19 | Therese , of course , needs nothing but another injection of confidence and some sympathizing over Gesner . |
| 20 | Nerves afflict everyone in some way , and without them acting would be the poorer . |
| 21 | Lee used nothing but this disc to carve the piece with an angle grinder , and he describes some of the effects the tool can achieve . |
| 22 | ‘ I want nothing from those people , ’ Sweetheart snapped . |
| 23 | I do n't know I mean I do n't know nothing about these things , what , really have to feel that we are the lot |
| 24 | Obviously a client will not discuss intimate affairs with someone whom he believes to know nothing of such matters , or whom he thinks may condemn or be shocked by his problems . |
| 25 | I just want you to know nothing of that kind will happen again — ever . ’ |
| 26 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
| 27 | The Hampton Court maze has nothing on this lot . |
| 28 | The aunts are too busy criticising each other 's cooking to notice the small skirmish taking place up front : Jacob wrestling with the angel has nothing on several stone of reluctant Rosenbloom wrestling with an invisible me . |
| 29 | Martin Pipe 's New Zealand-bred put up a useful effort to beat Mad Thyme on his debut at Uttoxeter and has nothing of that calibre to deal with here . |
| 30 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |